a fresh start
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha fresh starta fresh startAGAINwhen you start something again in a completely new and different way after being unsuccessful I hope Jim and I can get back together and make a fresh start. freshExamples from the Corpusa fresh start Around six years ago, she departed for California to make a fresh start. Every week is a fresh start. It gives you a fresh start. It was spring, and he was making a fresh start. She decided to travel back to this country and make a fresh start. The prisoners welfare group Nacro, says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start. What we need, it argues, is a fresh start. Then make a fresh start on a more efficient brand of government activism for the future. Bankruptcy proceedings free you from overwhelming debts so that you can make a fresh start, subject to restrictions.